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In practice, the money may be wasted or misdirected.
实际上，这些钱有可能浪费或者误用。
Similarly, if someone buys something and then asks for your opinion, there is no need to tell him that you think he wasted his money. The truth would only have been helpful before the purchase.
同样地，如果有人买了东西，问你有何看法时，你就没必要告诉他你认为他是在浪费钱，因为这样的实话只有在买东西之前有帮助。
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Indeed, they wasted between 40% and 60% of their time making the system do something useful for them.
事实上，他们把40%到60%的时间浪费在系统上，以使系统能为他们做些有用的事。

Scientists from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases measured the energy content of America's wasted food.
It has its statutes, sort of the mock constitution, and its rituals that involve basically getting wasted.
他们有自己的规则一种仿宪法的章程,还有基本上是腐败挥霍的仪式
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You've wasted a lot of energy in doing that process.
在这个过程中,你浪费了很多能量。
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If the latter, a fair amount of the acreage in a round-sided room is wasted.
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(BADLY USED) Wasted time, money, etc. is time, money, etc. that is not used effectively because it does not produce the result you wanted.
(THIN) very thin and weak as a result of being ill or having no food
(DRUNK) very drunk or illfrom drugs